No Proof in New Black Panther Case: OfficialSays No Evidence Supports Charges by Right-Wingers That Obama Admin. Refuses to Prosecute Blacks for Breaking Vote Laws By David S Morgan WASHINGTON, July 25, 2010

(CBS) A Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights denounced allegations by some pundits that the Justice Department is refusing to pursue a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because of race, and suggested that the charges being made by right-wing figures are politically motivated.

Conservative broadcasters and websites have claimed that the Obama administration is dropping prosecution of New Black Panther activists who were videotaped outside a Philadelphia polling station on Election Day 2008, making intimidating remarks; one man was carrying a nightstick.

Earlier this month former Justice Department lawyer and Republican activist J. Christian Adams testified to the commission that senior officials in the department are not applying voting rights laws in a race-neutral way, by refusing to press charges against African Americans on these issues.

A recent Media Matters investigation has debunked charges that the Obama administration withdrew criminal charges against the Panthers (in fact, the Bush administration decided not to pursue criminal charges, with Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez testifying that the Bush Justice Department "determined that the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the criminal statutes"; a civil lawsuit was filed in the last days of the Bush administration, and a judgment won by the Obama Justice Department in May 2009).

What about statements, one from a black poll watcher and the statement from a former Clinton Admin.appointee (not exactly a right winger)who watched the video and declared it the worst case of voter intimidation he had ever seen.

This woman is a typical RINO (if she even is a Repub) in the mold of Juan McPain--they can never come out and call a Dem or black on any action for fear of being called right wing or racist.

Remember when Communists took over the entertainment industry (Hollywood) and many government offices, and even though McCarthy proved it, the communists kept insisting there was no such thing as communists?

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posted on 07/25/2010 11:29:01 AM PDT
by UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)

The real problem by this whole failure is that shoud the NBPP show up at a poll again, no one will call the authorites. The people will handle it themselves, and with historical, factual justification. Is that what Obama wants, riots at the polls?

Why would Obama want riots at the polls , one might ask?

Its a pan to destabilize the electoral process. And you are seeing only a small part of a larger plan to do just that.

Wait until ethnic voters are challenged for ID and citizenship papers, watch what happens then.

She isn't even a good liar. If those had been white men in sheets with clubs and they were within a half mile of a voting booth, the Obastard administration would have invented a "victim" in order to prosecute them.

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posted on 07/25/2010 11:45:28 AM PDT
by Blood of Tyrants
(The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)

The Panthers’ purpose wasn’t just to intimidate the white voters; it was to demonstrate to law-abiding black and white residents that, in Philadelphia, the Panthers are untouchable a proposition the Justice Department has helped them prove.

But what about the Panthers’ intimidating uniforms and jackboots. Don’t be silly, Thernstrom now counters. After all, “the boots were no different from a pair my husband owns.” Oh, I see: How could anyone think these friendly Panthers who were heard telling spectators, “You’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker” were any more intimidating than . . . Stephan Thernstrom, That’s the first thing that popped into my head upon reading about Panther leader King Samir Shabazz serenading blacks with enticements like, “want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!”

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